TREASURES FROM THE RUSKIN COLLECTION

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JANUARY 2 T M Rooke "East End of Chartres Cathedral from the River Eure" (1885). This scene shows the ancient, close-set rooftops of Chartres. The canopies over the river are washing sheds, where women went to wash their clothes. Rooke, who was in Chartres to record buildings of merit for Ruskin, drew the inside of the sheds which Ruskin kept in his own collections. Tourists to the city at the time were charmed by its obvious quaintness, as this extract from the “New York Times”, (July 1886) demonstrates: “The river is divided into two branches, and on each of these sluggish streams the little houses and sheds where washerwomen kneel at their sloping boards are unsurpassable in picturesqueness… Rows of such delightful scenes are to be met with while crossing the thickset bridges of stone in the old part of the city... Above rise the tall gables and crooked rooftrees of the town… then comes the upper city, crowned by the apse, the nave, the towers, steeples of Notre Dame.” Available as a quarto greetings card: http://www.guildofstgeorge.org.uk/shop/
JANUARY 3 "Western Façade of the Basilica of San Marco, Venice, Italy" (1877-1882) by John Wharltom Bunney (1828-1882). This magnificent painting is on permanent display in the Millennium Gallery
Page 1 and 2: A CALENDAR OF TREASURES FROM THE RU
Page 3: JANUARY 1 The early 14th century Bo
Page 7 and 8: JANUARY 4 Ruskin wrote, "I have to
Page 9 and 10: JANUARY 6 Epiphany Charles Fairfax
Page 11 and 12: JANUARY 8 On This Day in 1337: the
Page 13 and 14: JANUARY 10 The Critic as Artist. Ru
Page 15 and 16: JANUARY 12 On This Day in 1895, the
Page 17 and 18: JANUARY 14 DECAYING SPLENDOUR Angel
Page 19 and 20: On This Day in 1879, The Ruskin Soc
Page 21 and 22: JANUARY 17 Another example of Charl
Page 23 and 24: JANUARY 19 Cloisonné Vase (before
Page 25 and 26: On This Day in 1900, John Ruskin di
Page 27 and 28: JANUARY 22 William Hackstoun (1855-
Page 29 and 30: JANUARY 24 On This Day in 1919: the
Page 31 and 32: JANUARY 26 J. M. W. Turner, "View o
Page 33 and 34: JANUARY 28 John Wharlton Bunney, "A
Page 35 and 36: JANUARY 30 "The Templar's Chapel an
Page 37 and 38: JANUARY 31 J. W. Bunney, "The Thame

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